Review of Fantasma

Fantasma (2006)
9/10
Argentino walks through San Martin theater like a kid who sees the world for the first time
11 August 2006
Fantasma is a great experience. The film shows us different characters doing different things at the San Martin theater of Buenos Aires. What is important about this is that 2 of those characters are the actors from Lisandro Alonso previous films, Mizael and Argentino. Both live in the middle of the forest and the jungle but now they seem to be lost in this theater in the middle of a big city. The experience of just watching them, specially Argentino, is simple unique. There's no plot because what's really important is what we ask ourself while watching this characters. We wonder what they feel like, we try to feel like them. Argentino is at the theater for the screening of Los muertos. He watches himself. ¿Did he understand the film? ¿Did the spectators around him understand what they saw? There are questions without answers. It's our job, as viewers, to answer them or simply feel them.
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